Isn’t there another reason for Georgie’s changing of the subject. I had thought he was in Hillary’s pants suit pocket.
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Jason Linkins
The Huffington Post
DNC’s Brazile Says Clinton Camp Refused Obama ‘Olive Branch’
June 1, 2008 03:30 PM
On today’s This Week (with video), Donna Brazile, fresh from yesterday’s DNC Rules and Bylaws Tango at the Marriott Wardman Park, broke a little bit of a bombshell whilst paneling. According to Brazile, the Obama campaign had enough votes to get a fifty-fifty split of the Michigan delegation, a result that would have greatly advantaged the Obama campaign and minimized the delegate gains Clinton garnered from Florida. However, the Obama camp passed on pulling the trigger on that deal in favor of the less favorable 69-59 split that the Michigan delegation was proposing.
Brazile, who was taken aback at the lack of effort made by the Clinton campaign to “cut a deal” or otherwise “come to the uncommitted superdelegates” in the room, said: “He also could have won on a crucial vote on this Michigan proposal to split the delegation 50-50. And rather than cause a ruckus they gave in. He had the votes. and the Clinton campaign never took the olive branch.”
Naturally, George Stephanopoulos immediately interrupted Brazile and changed the subject, because he has the worst news instincts of any carbon-based lifeform walking the face of the Earth.
STEPHANPOULOS: But Donna, you were one of that 219 undeclared superdelegates left. First of all, I’ll give you the opportunity, you can declare right now.
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